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A33686 A detection of the court and state of England during the four last reigns and the inter-regnum consisting of private memoirs, &c., with observations and reflections, and an appendix, discovering the present state of the nation : wherein are many secrets never before made publick : as also, a more impartiall account of the civil wars in England, than has yet been given : in two volumes / by Roger Coke ... Coke, Roger, fl. 1696. 1697 (1697) Wing C4975; ESTC R12792 668,932 718

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